The paper explores the “unheimlich” (“unhomely”) in three South African novels: Gem Squash Tokoloshe, The Dream House and October. The novels use the trope of the house to represent the psychological and social traumas of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. They also use the mythopoeic cyclical journey to describe psychological responses to trauma. This is akin both to the psychoanalytic method and to the mythic journey back into the past to uncover repressed memories. Using Freudian psychoanalysis, we divide the exploration of this trauma into three different parts: deception, absence and substitution. Trauma is not contained in a single event. Its effects are felt in the deception which underpins the original event and furthered by the sense of absence that arises and which must then be alleviated by finding a substitute. This attempt is itself traumatic.

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不温馨的家：三部南非小说中的创伤、记忆和失去家

该论文探讨了三部南非小说中的“unheimlich”（“unhomely”）：Gem Squash Tokoloshe、The Dream House 和 October。小说使用房子的比喻来表现种族隔离和种族隔离后南非的心理和社会创伤。他们还使用神话般的循环旅程来描述对创伤的心理反应。这既类似于精神分析方法，也类似于回到过去以揭开被压抑的记忆的神话之旅。使用弗洛伊德的精神分析，我们将这种创伤的探索分为三个不同的部分：欺骗、缺席和替代。创伤不包含在单个事件中。它的影响在欺骗中被感受到，它支撑着原始事件，并被出现的缺席感所推动，然后必须通过寻找替代品来缓解这种缺席感。